Data governance covers "how to find, trust, share, and track data." Today: data catalog and lineage, safe data sharing (Data Exchange/Clean Rooms), and audit tracking (CloudTrail).
Central single source of truth for data asset metadata (schema, location, owner, tags).
- AWS Glue Data Catalog: Store database/table/partition metadata. Shared by Athena, Redshift Spectrum, EMR, Glue.
- Crawlers: Scan S3 etc., auto-infer and register schemas.
- Glue Schema Registry: Manage streaming (Kafka/Kinesis) schema versions and compatibility.
- Search/discovery: Analysts find needed data starting here.